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Jun 27, 2023
$2M NIH/NHGRI Grant To Develop a Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer Based on Engineered High-Resolution Nanopores
Meni Wanunu, associate professor of physics and bioengineering affiliated faculty member, received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for “Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA Nanopores for Electroosmotic Stretching and Sequencing Proteins”.
Jun 12, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Understanding Cell-Fate Transitions for Tumor Development
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Brown University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, is leading a $1.2 million NSF grant for determining the “Regulation of Cellular Stemness During the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).”
May 23, 2023
Parameswaran Named ATS Rising Star
BioE Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran was presented with a Rising Star Award for his research in the area of respiratory structure and function by the American Thoracic Society’s Science and Innovation Center (SIC).
May 22, 2023
BioE Spinout BrilliantSprings Is Finalist in ARPA-H Competition
The spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics of BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, made it to the “final four” of the “ARPA-H Dash” competition to accelerate health outcomes.
May 10, 2023
2023 Knight-Hennessey Fellowship
Bioengineering alum Conor Messer, E’19, was awarded a Knight-Hennessey Scholars fellowship and will pursue master’s degrees at Stanford University. Messer is an associate computational biologist at the Broad Institute.
May 04, 2023
2023 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The 10th Annual Departmental Co-op Awards were held on May 8, 2023, to celebrate the exemplary work of a select group of undergraduate and graduate students who have shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout their co-op experience.
Apr 27, 2023
2023 COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Awardees of the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award were selected by faculty members of the students’ department based on the students’ exemplary record in the classroom or laboratory, the contributions made in mentoring peers, or significant accomplishments in furthering research and scholarship.
Apr 27, 2023
Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Apr 24, 2023
$3.4M NIH Grant To Discover RNA Modification Sites Using Pseudouridine Modified mRNA
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard was awarded a $3.4 million NIH R01 grant for “Synthetic mRNA Control Set for Nanopore-Based Pseudouridine Modification Profiling in Human Transcriptomes.” The research has the potential to vastly increase insight into the epitranscriptome—changes in chemical modifications of RNA that can affect gene expression within cells—which could help identify new therapeutic targets and lead to new classes of drugs.
Apr 24, 2023
NIH $1.96M MIRA R35 Award To Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance
Elizabeth Libby, assistant professor of bioengineering, recently received a five-year, $1.96 million Early Stage Investigator R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award) grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Physiological and Developmental Role of Bacterial Ser/Thr Kinases.” Libby’s research is focused on how bacteria develop resistance at the cellular level—knowledge that will be crucial to the development of more effective antibiotics.